Poetry Reading with Luther Jett and Henry Crawford

W. Luther Jett is a native of Montgomery County, Maryland and a retired special educator. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. His poetry performance piece, Flying to America, debuted at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C. Luther’s poem “Monuments” was among the winning poems in the 2021 “Moving Words” competition, sponsored by the city of Arlington. His poem “Zeta” was a co-winner in the 2022 American Writers Review competition, sponsored by San Fedale Press. Most recently, Luther’s poem “How Many Fingers”, published in Bourgeon, was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. His work explores themes of activism and the details of daily life as in this excerpt from Concord/Unconquered:

Glory to the muck —
the sawdust floor — scrawled
signature, torn bandage,
mouth-harp and conch
forever, amen.

Henry Crawford is the author of two collections of poetry, American Software (CW Books, 2017), and the Binary Planet (Word Works, 2020). His poem, The Fruits of Famine, won first prize in the 2019 World Food Poetry Competition. His work has been published in Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Rattle, the Southern Humanities Review, and many others. He Writes on Substack at https://everydaypoet.substack.com/. His work focuses on images that shade into the surreal, as in this excerpt from Fruits of Famine:

On those nights I made an apple out of sand
and watched it blow away.

Book signing to follow.